Week 19 - Public Speaking And Presentation Skills Flashcards
What is the definition of Stage Fright
Anxiety over a prospect of giving a speech in front of an audience
How to deal with stage fright?
Cognitive transformation
Preparation
Positive thinking
Expect obstacles and plan how to deal with them
Recognise symptoms and transform them from negative into positive and helping you to prepare for a higher performance
What happened in the Gradients of Physiological Arousal in Parachuters (Fenz & Epstein, 1967) study?
Approach-Avoidance conflict for novice jumpers
Self-reported fear differences between novice and experienced jumpers
Peak of fear occurs earlier for experienced whereas novices experience peak of fear just before jumping
Fear declines over a longer period for experienced jumpers
What does the Fenz & Epstein of parachuters show?
That there is an adaptive function of the early peak of fear.
Early peak means a longer time for fear to decline
What is important in delivering a presentation and how it is done?
Voice - a tool that can be trained
Volume - audiences have to be able to hear and volume changes help keep attention
Pitch - pitch change keeps attention
Rate - Slower than 90 words per minute is boring, faster than 170 words per minute cant understand. 120-140 optimal rate
Pauses - gives audiences time to take notes
What is the Myth of Mehrebian (1967)?
7-38-55 rule of communication
7% of communication comes from words
38 from the voice
55 from the face
What colour rules exist for presentations?
No more than 3 background colours, best sticking to one
Avoid: red and green; orange and blue; red and blue
Better ones: yellow on black; white on blue; black on orange, orange on black; black on white
What are text and font rules for presentations?
Text - brief, no more than six lines
Font - sans-serif e.g. Arial, no more than two types of fonts, do not use all capital letters
Best times for presentations
Mid morning before lunch
Mid afternoon not directly after lunch
Mid week
